#old aristocrats

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Théobald Chartran, Candida, Marchioness of Tweeddale. Published in Vanity Fair on 1 March 1884.

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[lichdolly]

Millefleurs - Cotton Velveteen OP in green&black (2004)

[ellynneversweet]

“It feels strange,” said Touchstone, the wood humming beneath his hands like plucked lute strings.

Touchstone, falling naked and disorientated into the narrative: I am a hardbitten guard who can do practical stuff and definitely not a prince with a courtly education who can play the lute and dance and who does not know how to make porridge. Anyway, here’s wonderwall.

[omg-hellgirl]

Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger by Slim Aarons at Leixlip Castle, County Kildare, Ireland, 1968.

[isabelle-primrose]

The Ladies Waldegrave by Joshua Reynolds, 1780

[witchinatree]

STOP DRAWING LADY MOWBRAY HOT!!!! SHE IS A MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY!!!!!!!!

pretty privilege is real and we need to take it away from her. she has enough already i am SURE

[bicyclesinthefield]

marie is my favorite disney character 🎀

[arendaes]

One of the side-effects of reading Lord of the Rings for the first time that no one tells you about is suddenly you will have the urge to play Lord of the Rings online and listen to I See Fire on repeat for an hour.

[waugh-bao]

I found a little gem of a video on dailymotion. "Equidia chez Charlie Watts des Rolling Stones"

I think its the first time I've seen anything where Charlie and Shirley are talking to one another, at least audibly. It is wonderfully cute.

This is so lovely! I saw a version of it years ago, but it was much shorter and the quality was so poor that I never bothered to post or gif it. It’s a shame we don’t have more footage of them interacting because they’re exactly as funny and cute as one would expect. (Also, sorry about how the thumbnail looks. If you click on the video to play that header and the control buttons will disappear after a few seconds, there was just no way for me to screen capture the first bit of the video without them).

Also, I’m not a dog person, but I love the Wattses rescue dogs. Especially this girl who is so emo about her mum and dad not paying 100% attention to her.

[quillkiller]

if u think narcissa is irredeemable what do u think abt regulus?

have i accidentally made it seem like i think regulus is a good person…. he’s my emotional support holier than thou self pitying manipulative failguy who can’t shake his superiority complex no matter how hard he tries and no matter the au..

[marietheran]

I can't tell why "childless cat lady" is what became the modern liberal stereotype. they have literally existed since time immemorial in every part of society.

the popularity of "dog mums" seems to be a new phenomenon on the other hand.

[july-19th-club]

reading an academic book about the jacobites right now and charlie. good lord charlie. what if a guy was like baru (insane foreigner (technically, from the same ethnic heritage but never been there and knows little of the language and culture) thrust into position of royalty and war leader of a conquered but rebellious northern territory, alcoholic womanizer with more bad habits than good but people who don't know him fucking love him) but crucially. bad at everything baru's good at

[lichdolly]

Moi-même-Moitié - Embroidered Velvet JSK (2008)

[visenyaism]

in modern au westeros, do the targaryens count as old money? i know they have been around for like 300 years now but i can see like a bolton or a hightower being like “anyone who showed up in the past 1000 years could leave in the next 1000” (v targeted comment)

i mean probably old money given that they’ve been aristocrats the whole time (even if in valyria they were middling) but there was definitely a sense that they were foreign in the beginning before the conquest. arguably the doctrine of exceptionalism encourages that but it’s hard to be new money when you literally founded the country. When we compare them to the houses that are considered “new money” like the tyrells, brackens, cleganes, or baelishes, that isn’t really their situation at all

[orangerosebush]

Socmed discussions about Saltburn, to me —

1) reveal that people are even more squeamish about explicit gay sexuality than they think they are

(And if this is what passes for shocking erotic excess, then we, in the anglosphere, are in a more — not making a comment about individuals here — restrained moment with mainstream American/British adult cinema than we were with mainstream adult heterosexual cinema in the 90s, eg the erotic thriller)

And

2) suggest people are increasingly making art that is in conversation with, if not explicitly nostalgic for, the 2010-16 Tumblr-era.

(I really truly suspect Saltburn is, in part, an adaptation of the tropes and aesthetics that were in certain “The Social Network” fan spaces.)

[cabeswaterdrowned]

(okay this one actually is to help me decide something)

I ruled out all the WoC based on period typical racism / this needs to be a woman his parents approve of. So this is who I am left with based on my various story requirements